Polio Notes – darnell18

• It can spread through feces. It can spread through a stream. It lives in the human intestine. It can also spread through a fly landing on feces and carrying it elsewhere.
• It kills 1 in 1,000 kids that it effects. It thrives in places with turmoil and chaos among them. Yet, it can also spread in more advanced countries as well. Children are sadly the most vulnerable to this disease.
• If the we could manage to have the world be polio free for a few minutes and sustain that, it would be gone and a thing of the past from there on out. Tens of billions of dollars have been put to use in an attempt to eliminate the disease. Yet, it is a disease that has not been seen by these people because the places most affected by polio do not embrace this help. It spreads rapidly and is extremely deadly.
• Much like  cases of measles, we do not care because we are vaccinated and think it cannot happen to us. This same lazy mentality applied to cases of polio could be potentially dangerous because just since you cannot see it, does not mean it is not there.
• Adults fight it off better than children do, and shockingly children under 5 are the most vulnerable to contracting polio. If every child under 5 years old were to be vaccinated for polio at the same time, 250 kids would be paralyzed as a result and actually contract polio.
• Vaccinations that do not run the risk of giving patients polio do exist, but they are significantly more expensive. And this disease exists primarily in areas that are not very wealthy to say the least. Years ago our country went into Pakistan to give immunizations for polio, but were really there primarily to gather intelligence about Osama Bin Laden. After killing him, the trust of their people when it comes to immunizations from the U.S. was greatly diminished.

Practice Opening:

Polio is a deadly disease with a cure, but still revolves and spreads rapidly in less advanced countries. The likelihood of the disease being eradicated in the next 20 years is slim. The reason behind this is that the countries that suffer the most from polio are extremely poor. Therefore, they resort to the less expensive vaccinations that still give certain patients polio. In this case, it will continue to circulate until these countries come into some more money, which is not expected to happen within the next 20 years.